1. Jacob E. Moss
U.S. Department of State
September 14, 2012

2. Old Issue, Renewed Momentum
Why Now?
• Development of new stove technologies and fuels
• Development of cheaper and more accurate monitoring tools
• Demonstrated successes in the field
• Private sector interest in Base of Pyramid
• Availability of innovative financing (carbon, micro, impact investment)
• Strong empirical evidence on health and environmental effects
• Policy interest in near-term climate mitigation opportunities
• Ownership and excitement at national country level
• Convergence of players and new approaches

3. Launch of the Global Alliance for
Clean Cookstoves
“By upgrading these stoves, millions of lives could be saved and
improved. This could be as transformative as bed nets or even
vaccines.”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, September 21, 2010

4. The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Every day, 3 billion people (500 million households)
Problem rely on solid fuels to power their rudimentary stoves,
leading to 2 million deaths annually, wasted
productivity, and environmental degradation.
Vision Universal adoption of clean and efficient cookstoves
and fuels.
Save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and
Mission preserve the environment by creating a thriving global
market for clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels.
Goal 100 million households adopt clean and efficient
cookstoves and fuels by 2020.
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5. The Alliance convened the sector to develop a
cohesive strategy to ignite change.
More than 350
practitioners and other experts
11 expert Working Groups
6 months of engagement
Strategy report released
in November 2011!
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6. A three-pronged strategy has been developed
to spur the clean cookstove market.
• Finance clean cookstoves
• Understand and motivate the user as a customer
and fuels at scale
• Reach the last mile
• Access carbon finance
• Finance the purchase of clean cookstoves
• Build an inclusive value chain
and fuels
for clean cookstoves and fuels
• Develop better cookstove
• Gather better market intelligence
technologies and a broader menu
• Ensure access for vulnerable
of options Enhance Strengthen populations (humanitarian)
Demand Supply
Foster an
Enabling
Environment
• Promote international standards and rigorous testing protocols, locally and globally
• Champion the sector to build awareness
• Further document the evidence base (health, climate, and gender)
• Engage national and local stakeholders
• Develop credible monitoring and evaluation systems 6

7. The Alliance and ISO have made strong
progress toward global cookstoves standards.
• International Workshop Agreement meeting in the Hague – a group
of more than 90 stakeholders from 23 countries reached a consensus
on an International Workshop Agreement document in February
2012. Guidance in final stages of editing and will be released by early
June.
• International Standard – The Alliance has begun discussions with the
American National Standards Institute regarding their possible role as
the U.S. secretariat for the cookstoves standards process, which will
continue under the International Organization for Standardization
framework.
• Continuous improvement in acceptable standards – The Alliance will
define a baseline by end of 2012 and continue to increase the bar on
acceptable standards every few years.
• Health-based Guidelines – Alliance supporting parallel World Health
Organization process, with guidelines expected by end of 2012
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8. The Alliance will be operational in five
priority countries by year end.
East Africa region (Kenya,
Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda), Stakeholder
Focus Countries – sessions
Transformational Role Ethiopia, Bangladesh, held in a
Vietnam dozen
countries
and draft
action plans
in place for
Active Countries – Ghana, Nigeria, Indonesia, priority
Selective Engagement Guatemala, Mexico, Peru countries.
China and India are envisioned to have unique leadership roles within the Alliance.
*Countries to be finalized after all stakeholder consultation meetings. 8

9. We are deploying a two track approach to
enabling markets in priority countries.
Capacity Development
Standards and
Sector Support: Testing
Consumer Technology and
- Mobilize Research Manufacturing
Resources
- Champion Sector Entrepreneur Reaching the
- Knowledge Hub Engage Training Last-Mile
- Catalyze sector Governments
and broker
partnerships Access to Finance
- M+E (all types)
- Strengthen
Evidence Base Market
Innovation
Intelligence
Activities for the public good that Tailored support that focuses limited
benefit the entire sector resources on driving scale
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10. Critical research is well underway along with tools to
catalyze action and momentum within the sector.
Filling in the evidence gaps … Developing online communities
of practice …
• Child Survival RFA (April): ~ $1m
with match provided by NIH
• Climate Mapping RFP (July): ~ $500k
• Gender and Livelihood Research
(July): ~ $250k
• Testing Center RFA (July): $1.3m
• Capacity building and working
capital funds RFA to be launched in
October ~ $3m
• RFA for new business models ~ $1m and in person Clean Cookstove
Conference in Asia next Spring.
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11. Nearly 400 Partners and Growing
Donor Countries Private Sector Donors NGO and MFI National Partners
Canada Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Denmark Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Finland China
Colombia
Germany El Salvador
Ethiopia
Italy Ghana
Ireland Guatemala
Kenya
Malta Laos
Lesotho
Netherlands Malawi
Mexico
Norway Nepal
Nigeria
Spain Rwanda
South Africa
Sweden
Tanzania
United Kingdom Peru
Viet Nam
United States Uganda

12. The Alliance continues to Champion the Issue
through variety of supporters, channels and events.
Julia
Roberts
during
Alliance
Video
recording
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13. U.S. Commitment
High-level Diplomacy
• High-level diplomatic outreach to engage new country partners
• Incorporating cookstoves into high-level bilateral and
multilateral dialogues of the U.S. government
• Outreach to engage new private, multilateral, NGO, and other
partners for the Alliance
• Engaging U.S. embassies and missions to support Alliance
activities in their countries, as appropriate
• Engaging high-level U.S. officials in support of Alliance activities
• Engaging new U.S. government agencies as appropriate
• Leveraging U.S. government research commitments to engage
other research institutions globally

14. Original U.S. Commitment: 5+ years, over $50M
Mostly Applied Research on Cookstoves
DOE
NIH Health EPA Stove CDC Health
Technology USAID
Research Testing Evaluation
Research ($9.0M)
($24.7M) ($6.0M) ($1.0M)
($12.5M)
• Ongoing & new Develop low- • Expanded stove • Haiti market Evaluating
research and emission, high- testing lab to building effort cookstove
clinical trials efficiency stoves conduct • Researching programs to better
• Develop • Combustion extensive in- strategies to understand their
improved research house testing influence public health
measuring • Sensors, fans, • Regional stove behavior benefits
devices monitors testing related to
• Expand • materials workshops adoption of
epidemiologic • Leading stove clean cooking
studies standards effort stoves and fuels

15. Year 2 USG
Commitments
Financing, Research,
Emergency Relief, &
Operations
Overseas
Private State Dept. CDC Health
USDA and Peace
Investment and USAID Evaluation
NOAA Corps
Corp (up to ($2.2M) ($1.2M)
$50M)
Debt financing or • Provide 30,000 Evaluating Technical expertise Expanded efforts
insurance over 3 stoves to 200K cookstove on key policy to facilitate the
years to support drought-affected programs to better questions related construction,
clean cookstove individuals in the understand their to biomass-based purchase of, and
projects (e.g., Horn of Africa public health cooking fuels, proper use of
manufacture, sale, • Behavior change benefits forestry, and near- improved
purchase) research term climate cookstoves in 11
benefits countries

16. Recent State Dept. Activities
Sec. Clinton at cookstoves exhibit Transitioning from traditional to Sec. Clinton at cookstoves exhibit
(Chennai, 2011) clean stove (India, 2011) (Beijing, 2012)
Special Rep. Balderston at Beijing Special Rep. Balderston at clean
Univ. of Chemical Technology cookstove demo (Joburg, 2012) Special Rep. Balderston building
(Beijing, 2012)
cookstove (Guatemala, 2012)

17. Summary US Government Messages
• Under Secretary Clinton’s leadership, the U.S. has
helped the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
position the cookstoves sector to achieve
unprecedented global progress.
• The U.S. has made an unprecedented, whole-of-
government commitment to the Alliance (10 agencies).
• Every U.S. agency is meeting or exceeding its original
commitment.
• The updated United States commitment to the Alliance
will be announced on September 24 in New York City.